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Goddess of death finds life in the Mission

by inaki and El Tecolote Staff August 25, 2010September 3, 2010

Those unfamiliar might mistake her for the Grim Reaper but to Orosco and a growing number of devotees she is an angel from God. They call her La Santa Muerte — Saint Death or Holy Death.

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